First blanch the almonds, then throw them, a few at a time, into a sauce-pan of boiling sweet-oil; as soon as brown enough, take them out and put them on brown paper to absorb the surplus oil; sprinkle with salt.

We got some mattresses and pillows out of the state-rooms, and when it began to get dark we lighted the lamp -- which we had filled with sweet-oil from a flask in the pantry, not finding any other kind -- and we hung it from the railing of the stairs.

Among their crops in succeeding years were corn, wheat, rye, hemp, and flax; wool from merino sheep, which they were the first in that part of Pennsylvania to own; and poppies, from which they made sweet-oil.